Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-16
WHAT THE WIRES SAY.
DR.. Mc6lynn's Letter to Plymouth
Church Of Old
Charley Savage.
PLYMOUrH CHURCH.
Services in Honor Of Its Late Pasta
DR.. McGlynn's Letter.

Services in Honor Of Its Late Pastor
Dr. McGlynn's Letter.
New YORK, March 13.-The evening ser
vice in Plymouth Church was remarkable
from the fact that clergymen from almost
every denomination were present and
spoke in eulogy Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher. The building was crowded and
the vestibules were utterly impossible, and
during the service many people tainted,
and more than one remained where they
swooned as they could not be carried out.
Rev. Holiday conducted the services and
read the following letter from DR.. McGlynn,
the deposed priest OF st. Stephens Church,
New York:
Reverend and dear Mr.. Holiday:
I regret very much that cannot be pres.
ent this evening at the meeting in Plymouth
Church to honor the memory of it's great
pastor and to condole for it's irreparable
loss. I must, therefore, content myself with
saying briefly in writing which I should be
glad to say more fully in speech. It is a
sign of the dawning of q better day for
which the world has 80 long yearned that
such q meeting should be possible, and
that you and yours should 30 earnestly
desire the presence Of clergymen of that
church which seems so remote-and as too
many would say-so antagonistic to ours.
Foremost in the work of Fastening the
coming of better day was the man whose
death we mourn and for whose work we
give thanks. None other 50 well as he
taught the men of his time to exalt the
essential of religion, pure and undefiled, in
which we all agree and to minimize the dif-
ferences that seem to separate us. To him
was given to see with a clearer
vision, to reveal with unequalled
genius and with tirelees energy to make
common among men, the meaning OF Him
who taught of old on the mount and by
the seashore the care OF all religion-the
brotherhood of man. I cheerfully confess
that from Beecher I learned from the first
days of my ministry a new tenderness, and
the fullness of the meaning in "Our
Father" and I am glad to be able to here
state that theology of the old Church
agrees with him in this, that the essence Of
religion is in communication with God
through the love of him for his own sake
and in loving all men with the zest which
we love ourselves, and that while the
sacrifice and sacrament, creed and ritu al,
prayer and sermon, and song may be, and
are, powerful helps and necessary lnanif-
festations Of this religion, which is love,
without it they are but mockery and
blasphemy. thankfully count him among
the masters from whom I learned the
fuller meaning OF the prayer ''Thy Will be
Done on Earth as it is in Heaven" We
must all agree that the condition and
duties and strifes of onr temporal life are
but signs and symbols ofspiritual things and
that the yearning of this whole world for
'liberty. equality and fraternity" made the
reign of justice and love. If we pluck out
the religious heart of it, the burden is not
worth learning, nor the battle worth fight
ing. He and other Grants of their time
have cleared the field and illuminated the
way for a lighter progress and helped to
give more perfect assurance OF victory in
the strife that is now beginning against q
wider slavery than that against
which he dealt his sturdy blows, the
enslaving of masses by classes, and to
cement the union not merely Of American
States. but of the people of the world.
Stimulated and encouraged by his success
let US take up the burden of the peoples
wrongs where his tired shoulders have laid
it down and fight anew the battle, if need
he, till the right shall come and we see the
burden fall from our shoulders and the
weapons from our hands, shall have a
nearer vision than was given in the reign of
the Prince of Peace. Respectfully,
EDWARD McGLYNN.